Similar words: photograph, photographer, photography, set apart, metal, tap, tape, phone. Meaning: ['metəfɔr /'metəfə,'metəfɔː] n. a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity.
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91. A whole book could be written on water as metaphor, much as I am attempting with bread.
92. Changing metaphor, the equilibrium unemployment rate is seen to be shackled to the actual rate.
93. We find it hysterically funny, though it is a sad metaphor for the economic mess this country is in.
94. It is in the nature of metaphor to present concepts as unanalysed totalities, without making clear the relations between the entities.
95. So far, the proponents have answered these questions by retreat into euphemism and advance into metaphor.
96. Or perhaps chaos theory provides a more effective meaning-making metaphor.
97. We use this to cast light on a metaphor of which we are given no other interpretation.
98. Thus the same metaphor can lead to diametrically opposite understandings.
99. We use this metaphor to characterize local authorities' responses to care programming.
100. That is not a metaphor, it is the plain truth.
101. As I hope to show, Golding anticipates some recent findings of scholars on the nature and function of metaphor.
102. The drowned body that refuses to stay submerged can be taken as a metaphor for the repressed but irrepressible female.
103. Like the theories Brooke-Rose criticizes in 1958, this view conceives of metaphor in terms of semantic property to be fought over and captured.
104. We are now in a position to ask whether one type of advert typically uses one type of metaphor.
105. Recursive branching is also a good metaphor for the embryonic development of plants and animals generally.
106. According to Wimsatt it commonly consists in the use of analogy, especially through metaphor.
107. Fans of the novel claim that its stomach-turning violence is a brilliant metaphor for the 1980s culture of consumerism and self-gratification. Sentencedict.com
108. Our everyday reality is a grand illusion, a dream metaphor, which we are creating.
109. Is it not also an ideal metaphor for Dole: Route 66, the thread that runs through his life?
110. Drucker selects the metaphor of orchestra as the model for the corporate world to follow but the conclusions are much the same.
111. Can you think of a better metaphor for hell on earth?
112. The defining metaphor for this innovation was the biological cell, which performs specific functions and communicates with other cells.
113. Ralph Ellison captured it perfectly for the black man with the metaphor of invisibility.
114. It seems to me that anorexia nervosa acts as a metaphor for all the problems of adolescence.
115. One way to think about URLs is to use the libraries and location on a shelf as a metaphor.
116. The skyscraper metaphor is apt, for our only hope to understanding such complexity is with a hierarchical model.
117. To extend the metaphor, the fare is competently cooked and reasonably nutritious.
118. Palimpsest is a metaphor commonly used by deconstructionists, particularly Jacques Derrida.
119. I find inspiration in the quest of others for self-discovery, especially when they express this through the metaphor of food.
120. A woman surfacing: this image can serve as a metaphor for the history of the West.